2022 Life Logs, Day 47: More of the Same
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Weather: Overcast, Warmer, and Windy; High Temp 43, Low Temp 40 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
It’s the same old story here—editing, puzzling, editing, walking, editing, playing outside with Shadow, editing, watching the Olympics. I do take time to cook a little, clean a little, but for now, life is mostly spent editing the chapters of The Voyage of Windbird. Today I was back at the beginning of the book working on Chapter One: Getting Ready. It begins, “People often ask how long it takes to get ready to sail around the world. That’s a tricky question. It took four years after buying the ‘just right’ sailboat to do the final preparation. It took all of the thirty-two years that Mark and I were together prior to sailing out of Boston Harbor to get to the place where we were financially and mentally prepared to live the sailing dream.” I have often talked about the fact that Mark I both retired on Friday, October 14, 2005, and sailed out of the Boston Harbor only four days later. When I say that, people ask if it really only took four days to get ready. I chuckle. We had spent a lifetime in preparation, and the last four years really focusing on the task. I’m not sure what we did those last four days, but they were inconsequential.
February’s full moon, aptly called the Snow Moon, rose at 4:56 pm this afternoon. At 5:15 pm Shadow and I went out to play fetch with a tennis ball. We wandered down to the dock to see the bright spot of red, orange, and pink in the sky accompanying the sunset.
That was definitely the brightest spot in the overcast sky today. But the real shocker was the low tide. There was literally no water under the dock.
I know the lowest tides do occur during first quarter and last quarter moons, but this one was the lowest I have ever seen here.
It is time to turn my attention to the Olympics for the evening. Last night I stayed up way too late watching the women’s figure skating short program. So far tonight I have been watching the men’s aerials in free skiing. As I watch these Winter Olympics, I keep asking myself how in the world people can do such things. I am in awe. Today I was rewriting the Preface of my book and noted my opening quote by Henry David Thoreau. It certainly applies to Olympians. “What people say you cannot do, you try and find you can.”
